Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany, on the English Channel coast.
The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...
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Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.
France Culture
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* France Inter — Radio France's " generalist" sta ...
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France Inter
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.
Career
Born of a gardener father and a caretaker mother, Jean Lebrun grew up in the Parisian suburbs and studied in the Catholic college Notre-Dame de la Providence at
Enghien-les-Bains
Enghien-les-Bains () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the département of Val-d'Oise.
Enghien-les-Bains is famous as a spa resort and a well-to-do suburb of Paris, developed in ...
. He pursued his higher studies at the Sorbonne, then immersed in the
May 1968 events in France
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. He devoted a master's thesis to the history of the
La Trappe Abbey
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The site of the famous La Trappe Abbey was for ce ...
, at
Rancé
Rancé () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It is about 20 km north of Lyon.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Ain department
The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France.
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. An agrégé of history, he abandoned teaching to engage in journalism. He collaborated at '' Combat'', the TV program ' in the 1970s, the magazine '' Esprit'', whose editorial board he was a member, and '' La Croix'', whose cultural service he co-directed.
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France Culture
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, where Jean Lebrun has spent most of his career, he produced and hosted the programs ''Culture Matin'' (from 1992 to 1999) and ''Pot-au-feu'' before animating ''Travaux Public'', a program broadcast from Monday to Friday from 6.30 pm to 7.30 pm which he periodically recorded in a "Deep France Culture" ambiance from Blumeray (
Haute-Marne
Haute-Marne (; English: Upper Marne) is a department in the Grand Est region of Northeastern France. Named after the river Marne, its prefecture is Chaumont. In 2019, it had a population of 172,512.Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and in various French cities on Thursdays and Fridays. The recording sometimes took place at festivals or abroad. In June 2008, Jean Lebrun stopped producing the program ''Travaux publics''. He then worked until February 2011 as program advisor to the director of the France Culture channel.
Lebrun replaced , producer of ' on
France Inter
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, with ' on 28 February 2011.
He is the author of ''Journaliste en campagne'' (October 2006) and ''Le Journalisme en chantier : chronique d'un artisan'' (October 2008), both published by the publishing house .
In 2014, he was awarded the prix Goncourt de la Biographie for ''Notre Chanel'', published by Bleu autour, A biographical work on the fashion designer undertaken years earlier with his companion Bernard Costa (died of AIDS in 1990).
He joined the editorial board of ' in 2015.
Jean Lebrun was awarded the Prix Richelieu in 1997.
Works
*1978: ''L'Abbé Louis-Joseph Fret : historien et diseur de vérités 1800–1843'', "Cahiers percherons", n° 60, ''Association des amis du Perche'', 40 p.,
*1981: ''Lamennais ou l'inquiétude de la liberté'', Paris,
Fayard
Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard ...
, 281 p.,
*1997: ''Pour l'amour des villes : interview with
Jacques Le Goff
Jacques Le Goff (1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries.
Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term t ...
'', Paris, Textuel, 159 p.,
*1997: ''Femmes publiques : interview with Michelle Perrot'', Textuel, 159 p.,
*1997: ''Le Livre en révolutions : interview with
Roger Chartier
Roger Chartier, (born December 9, 1945 in Lyon), is a French historian and historiographer who is part of the Annales school. He works on the history of books, publishing and reading. He teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Soc ...
'', Textuel, 159 p.,
*1998: ''La République sur le fil : interview with
Serge Berstein
Serge Berstein (born in 1934) is a French historian, well known as a specialist of the French Third Republic.
He is a teacher at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
, motto_lang = fr
, mottoeng = Roots of the F ...
'', Textuel, 143 p.,
*1998: ''Une laïcité pour tous : interview with
René Rémond
René Rémond (; 30 September 1918 – 14 April 2007) was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
Born in Lons-le-Saunier, Rémond was the Secretary General of Jeunesses étudiantes Catholiques (JEC France in 1943) and a ...
'', Textuel, 143 p.,
*2001: ''Raison d'Église De la rue d'Ulm à Notre-Dame, 1967–2000 : conversations with '', Calmann-Lévy, 193 p., 2001
*2001: ''L'Homme dans le paysage : interview with
Alain Corbin
Alain Corbin (born January 12, 1936 in Lonlay-l'Abbaye) is a French historian. He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory.
Trained in the Annales School, Corbin's work has moved away from the large-scale collective stru ...
'', Textuel, 190 p.,
*2002: '' Jacques Lacarrière : entretiens avec Jean Lebrun'', Flammarion, series " Mémoire vivante", 181 p.,
*2006: ''Journaliste en campagne'',
Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule
Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule (, literally ''Saint-Pourçain on Sioule''; Auvergnat: ''Sant Porçanh de Siula'') is a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. It is named after Saint Pourçain, a 6th century ...
, Bleu autour, 125 p.,
*2008: ''Le Journalisme en chantier : chronique d'un artisan'', Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, Bleu autour, 127 p.,
*2014: ''Notre Chanel'' Jean Lebrun in the program "Pas la peine de crier" by on France Culture, prix Goncourt de la Biographie ; see on the site o académie Goncourt. Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, Bleu Autour, 280 p.,
*2014: ''Les grands débats qui ont fait la France'', with Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Paris, Flammarion / France Inter, 352 p.,
France Inter
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